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Arts & Culture, Books, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: LOVE IN THE BIG CITY
This Korean best-seller examines love and friendship in contemporary Seoul.
Art, Arts & Culture, EssaySaturday
TWELVE IMAGES OF CENTRAL PARK ON OLD POSTCARDS
Old postcards of Central Park offer a window onto the past of this vital green space.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: EMPTY WARDROBES
The new translation of Maria Judite de Carvalho’s Empty Wardrobes reviewed
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: RESET
Paolo Pergola’s novel Reset reviewed
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essays, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue
AINU OTHELLO: THE STORY OF A PLAY
Alison Watts discusses a Japanese adaptation of Othello.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue
INTERVIEW WITH MARI KATAYAMA
Japanese artist Mari Katayama interviewed.
POSTER BOARDS AT THE PROTEST
An affecting piece from a young writer navigating the lineage and burdens of Black identity.
A Very Open Letter from Donald Hump
This very open letter is not only for fake democrats but also proud republicans who have contributed to this great nation by buying more guns than even Al Qaeda to ...
The Adidas Yeezy; Or, The Self in Modern Times
Exploring the grey areas between literature and art, and also literature and culture.
somewhere there is an abandoned refrigerator
You know who doesn’t mind a high desert July? The scorpions.
ARIANE
There’s this bizarro technique my doctor’s urging. It’s got a bunch of scientific terms that just sound to me like whatever whatever and no fucking way this is going to ...
Interiors
You are so beautiful it kills me, I said.
I’m not, love, he said. Perhaps on the inside. Don’t insult my eyes, I said.
Arts & Culture, The Litro Blog
Dear Rap Music (from the Dystopian Letters)
You started surveying in New York amongst poor Blacks who brought their blues, jazz, and spirituals to the city of rectangular skyscrapers.
Arts & Culture, Essays, Travel&Lifestyle
Rawhead and Bloody Bones
“A monster that lives in a cave up the road,” Evans said. “He looks in the windows of houses at night, and if he sees a kid who’s not asleep, ...
The Journey into Sacred Profanity: A Colorado Dance Troupe’s Mission of Empowerment
At first blush, a chapel might seem like an odd venue for a scene like this. But the members of Boulder Burlesque – “where the profane is sacred” – regard ...
Arts & Culture, The Litro Blog
Dear Northern Hemisphere (from the Dystopian Letters)
In the Americas, your start was bloody. It was based on the dispossession and genocide of the Natives as your men in long pants cackled in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French.
Living a Nightmare with Eyes Wide Open
She bowed her head and took a moment before answering, “I am not afraid. I cannot be afraid. Tesfay needs me not to be afraid.”
Bryan Washington’s Houston Inspired Short Story Collection, Lot- Wins the UK’s £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize
Bryan Washington’s Houston Inspired Short Story Collection, Lot- Wins the UK’s £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize
Dear Africa (from the Dystopian Letters)
With flashes from the camera phones incessant, the tourists take photo after photo of us, our talents, and the wonders on exhibit.
Tiger in the Mirror
Around the months of September and October each year, as the ten day festival of Dussera approaches, boys and men in the Dakshin Kannada in southwest India, in the region ...